Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was welcomed by the organisations that had campaigned for non-payment . |
| 2 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 3 | Clara had visited this shop many times , and had stood for hours surreptitiously reading C. P. Snow , Tolkien , D. H. Lawrence and the poems of T. S. Eliot . |
| 4 | Some of the demonstrators , Tass reported , had put forward ‘ nationalist , anti-socialist slogans ’ and had called for strikes , civil disobedience and the liquidation of Soviet power in Georgia ; some ‘ extremists ’ had been armed with sticks , stones and metal objects . |
| 5 | For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises . |
| 6 | Mr Hnatiuk had taken one look at the approaching Mrs Frizzell and had dived for cover into a knot of other businessmen . |
| 7 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 8 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 9 | In the interval he seemed particularly cheerful and had asked for news about the Bishop 's Castle Railway |
| 10 | On Feb. 5 lawyers for two Palestinians convicted following the October 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro [ see pp. 34077-79 ] announced that they had been released in December 1990 and had left for Algeria . |
| 11 | In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness . |
| 12 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 13 | Lessingham had refused whisky but had asked for wine . |